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A Massachusetts woman won the right to wear a spaghetti strainer on her head in a driver’s license photo for “religious reasons” because she is a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Memes circulating on social media suggest that McDonald’s has introduced its answer to a proposed $15 an hour minimum wage hike: Robots (aka Kiosks).

Several posts have circulated for years that instruct citizens to send holiday cards to “A Recovering American Soldier” at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, while other messages have mentioned a similar program from the Red Cross. Today we’ll look at the fact and fiction behind these claims.

A graphic that has circulated online for several years warns of a scam involving Parcel Delivery Service (PDS) which places a postcard on your door which asks you to call a number to claim a package. When you call that number, the graphic claims, your phone bill will be charged an exorbitant rate. Is...

A touching essay is said to contain the last words of Steve Jobs. It highlights his thoughts on wealth in the face of his own mortality. But did Jobs actually write these words?

A story from Ben Carson’s college days recounted in his 1990 autobiography Gifted Hands tells of a “hoax” test in which he was eventually named the most honest student in the class. Journalists have challenged the story, and Carson has fired back with evidence of his own.

A rumor circulating online states that NBC has “confirmed” that there will be a Friends reunion television show.

A classic urban legend states that a man posed as a car attendant at a zoo for 25 years before retiring with a fortune.